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Hamish Steel, founder, Digital Health Festival
By Adam Ang | 04:14 am | April 08, 2024
Hamish Steel, the 23-year-old founder of Australia's Digital Health Festival, says there are massive opportunities out there to accelerate Australian healthcare's digitalisation.
Stethoscope on an iPad
Cybersecurity In Focus
By Bill Siwicki | 01:13 pm | April 05, 2024
Poorly controlled cloud environments, growing access to systems, heightened regulatory scrutiny and significant deals activity will require healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders to bolster the defenses.
A hospital staff analysing a report on a desktop computer
By Adam Ang | 07:42 am | April 05, 2024
Also, New Zealand's My Health Record has expanded access to more personal health information.
Max Rogers at Huntress_Palm trees and skyscrapers in Orlando Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/iStock/Getty Images Plus
By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | April 03, 2024
Many healthcare organizations underestimate the expense of on-premises cybersecurity and may miss early signs of an attack if teams don’t know what to look for, says Max Rogers, senior director of the security operations center at Huntress.  
Darren Lacey of Johns Hopkins on cybersecurity
Cybersecurity In Focus
By Bill Siwicki | 12:45 pm | April 02, 2024
Darren Lacey discusses the key foundational technologies underlying healthcare's IT infrastructure, and how innovative approaches to open-source tooling and memory safe languages can help improve health systems' cybersecurity posture.
Sam Amory at Dedalus_Palm trees and skyscrapers in Orlando Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/iStock/Getty Images Plus
By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | April 02, 2024
Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are the chief concerns in the region, followed by cloud adoption and use of machine learning in medical imaging, says Sam Amory, managing director for the Middle East and Africa at Dedalus.
Johnathan Coleman, chief information security officer, and Zoe Barber, policy director, at The Sequoia Project
By Andrea Fox | 03:00 pm | April 01, 2024
Now that participation among multiple QHINs is allowed under TEFCA, The Sequoia Project addresses how cybersecurity requirements apply to all entities exchanging protected health data.
Dr. Farukh Usmani at Intermountain_ Palm trees and skyscrapers in Orlando Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/iStock/Getty Images Plus
By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | April 01, 2024
As the first organization in the world to reach Stage 7 of the new INFRAM24, the health system has seen valuable improvements in cybersecurity, sustainability and care delivery, says Dr. Farukh Usmani, its medical director of digital technology services.
Gavel on money
By Andrea Fox | 12:58 pm | March 29, 2024
The Rewards for Justice program seeks information leading to the identification or location of any ALPHV BlackCat-linked cyber actor. The group claimed credit for the destabilizing Feb. 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack. 
IT and cybersecurity leaders in server room
By Andrea Fox | 11:43 am | March 28, 2024
In healthcare, larger hospitals, all critical access hospitals, essential drug manufacturers and Class II and Class III devices would fall under the draft mandatory reporting rules, but health IT developers and others would not.